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3·3 days agoYou are correct on both counts.
Sorry about that. I fixed it. Interesting behaviour for me. When I added the image, it wiped out the website URL replacing it with the image URL. Had to then repaste the website URL. Feature or maybe buggy user.
While I agree it is old news, I disagree that Ontario doesn’t care now. I see a shift in attitude (purely opinion) and resurfacing old information which is still relevant is worthwhile to share.
Regardless, it is raising good points and information.
I agree that this has been true much of the time but the NDP won a majority lead by Bob Rae back in 1990. I was a young Liberal voter at the time and recall everyone being shocked. Unfortunately we were in a significant economic downturn. They took a page out of the idea of right sizing rather than down sizing with what became known as Rae days. No one had to lose a job, they just put in less hours and everyone got paid less. But no one got paid zero. Lots of generalizations there but you get the idea.
Marit Stiles and her team are doing a creditable job of holding a majority government to account. They are actively working to make people aware of what the Conservatives are trying to pull. They are using social media to expose how big business is gouging us, proposing viable solutions and giving people the opportunity to find their voice and speak their mind.
Maybe we will turn a corner next election if people get tired of the buffoonery.
I would really like to see an NDP majority the next time around. The Liberals and Conservatives are two sides of the same pro-business coin. The media which is in that camp and benefit from either being in power do a great job of painting socialism as a scarey bad choice, and this is believed to be true by many of the people who would benefit the most.
The vast majority of the programs that benefit people enlarge, health care, dental care etc. have been achieved by NDP parties pushing for these social values. They are not bad programs, they just cannot be monetized by the elite the way they would like. And taxes are not bad because that’s how these things are paid for, and the people who need the benefit but are least able to pay for it, also pay the least tax.
How is socialism bad?
Can the law be ruled illegal if challenged? Or something.
A suspicious mind might think that there was a connection between these things:
- Premier Doug Ford vacations in Muskoka
- A Bombardier Challenger 650 can land at Muskoka Airport
- A Bombardier Challenger 650 can technically land at Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport but is currently prohibited under the Tripartite Agreement between the City of Toronto, the federal government, and PortsToronto (commercial jet operations are banned at the island airport)
- In early 2026, the Ontario government announced plans to take over the airport to expand the runway and lift the jet ban. Until these expansions occur, the Challenger 650 cannot operate there
- Around the same time the Ford government makes concrete moves to exclude Ford and various others in his circle from Freedom of Information requests which might reveal the conversations our elected officials who work for us are having behind the scenes
- People become aware of the purchase of Air Ford One aka The Gravy Plane at some point
- Legislation to exclude the Premier and others from Freedom of Information requests passes this week
This sounds far too similar to behaviour we see South of our border with the only positive being that FACO if there’s enough noise. And I am not sure about “always”. I think it is much more selective but they did sell the plane back, this time.
Meanwhile Hospitals across the Province are running deficits and laying off more staff to make ends meet. So that Conservatives can pass more legislation for a user pay healthcare system rather than funding it properly.
It isn’t the people in government that will suffer. They can afford to pay when they need a bump to the front of the line. It is the average person that’s going to feel this the most.
We Ontarians either voted for this or allowed it to happen by not voting for another Party. I am personally disappointed that we have a full term of these shenanigans ahead of us and that we seem to have a society that values a scrabble for the top over looking after our neighbours.
2·6 days agoWell done. You’ve got this.
2·6 days agoI have had two for many years and both are working fine. I bought the second because they introduced a waterproof version. Still use both 10? years later. This could tip me to buying a third with colour.
IWNDWYT